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The quake hit 30 kilometres (19 miles) southwest of Halabja in Iraqi Kurdistan at around 9.20 pm, when many people would have been at home, the US Geological Survey said.

US President Donald Trump has tried to rally support to curb Pyongyang's rogue weapons programme during his trip, urging regional powers to stand united against the North's government.

The question of whether the US and Russian leaders will hold official discussions on the sidelines of the APEC summit in the resort city of Danang has added a layer of diplomatic intrigue to an event dominated by trade discussions.

While President Donald Trump jetted off to a summit in Vietnam after his state visit to China, his wife stayed behind to see the Beijing Zoo's favourite tenants before heading to the Great Wall.

Fergus Wilson, who owns hundreds of properties in Kent in south-east England, had denied being racist but lost the legal action brought by the UK's human rights watchdog when Maidstone County Court granted an injunction against the policy this week.

The violence has raised concerns about security for projects in the $57 billion China Pakistan Economic Corridor, a planned transport and energy link from western China to Pakistan’s southern deep-water port of Gwadar.

Alcohol is smuggled across borders and through sea ports, while several diplomats from poorer countries told Reuters they had been offered thousands of dollars by bootleggers to buy their quarterly 'alcohol quotas.'

"Today, I hope I speak not only for our countries but for ALL civilized nations when I say to the North: Do not underestimate us. AND DO NOT TRY US.," according to excerpts of a speech Trump is set to deliver to South Korea's parliament.

Speaking before an operational briefing at the base, Donald Trump said he would be meeting with generals about North Korea, declaring: "Ultimately it will all work out. Because it always works out. It has to work out."

In 2012, while stationed at an Air Force base in New Mexico, Texas gunman Devin Kelley was court-martialed and sentenced to a year's confinement for abusing his wife and child.

The 2,500-seat opera house, due to open in early 2019, will be built on the site of the Ataturk Cultural Centre (AKM) which has been unused for over a decade and whose impending demolition has worried some architects.

Asked what policies he might support in response to the shooting at a press conference in Tokyo, Trump said that based on preliminary reports, the gunman was "a very deranged individual, a lot of problems."

Paradise Papers have named Bollywood stars Amitabh Bachchan and Sanjay Dutt’s wife Manyata, Union minister Jayant Sinha and corporate lobbyist Niira Radia among Indians with alleged offshore dealings.

Prime Minister Saad Hariri stunned Lebanon and its leaders Saturday when he announced his resignation in a televised statement recorded in Saudi Arabia, citing Iranian and Hezbollah meddling in Arab affairs.

President Donald Trump seemed at ease in front of his CEO peers, calling out some by name, teasing that the first lady had to sell her Boeing stock once he took office.

In this October 1, 2017, file photo, Damian Green arrives on the opening day of the Conservative Party Conference, in Manchester, Britain.